Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
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#2Social media: the solution to, and source of, all your anxiety!
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#3In men? The study claims half the participants were guys age 18-30.
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#4Anxiety is the second leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide.
Uh, what? That's a patently ridiculous assertion to lead with (and not support).
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#5Anxiety is the second leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide. Uh, what? That's a patently ridiculous assertion to lead with (and not support).
If you take anxiety to include everything from stress to a bunch of disorders, I'd believe it. Our bodies were not made to handle the permanent stress we see in modern life. The first place I imagine goes to cardiovascular issues?
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#6It does I am sure in small instances, but isn't it established that it causes more anxiety in general ? I read a linkedin post about this guy on Linkedin asking a lady to "fix her hair" as a comment to something he probably found offending and to that another guy was asking the lady to shut up and that she was wrong to call out this man in the first place. I wanted to add my comment to this other guy and I could instantly feel all adverse emotions and eventually had to calm myself down and stay out. So when someone supported her , she definetly found her support and courage but many still find the anxiety in all kinds of social network, even with a verified person.
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#7Giving an addict a hit also reduces anxiety.
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#8This is the equivalent of saying that a cigarette reduces anxiety. The overall habit absolutely does not reduce anxiety.
Re: Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
#9In men? The study claims half the participants were guys age 18-30.
How fantastic. That means from age 18 we can allow men on social media!
Nobody denies all the effects of social media are negative. After all, if they were, nobody would use them. So there are benefits to it.
It also isn't news, really. The Dutch 'MIND Hulplijn' [1] in their former carnation 'Stichting Korrelatie' had a pilot with an online forum where people with mental issues could connect with each other. It eventually decided to close the forum because of users talking each other down in regard to the subject of suicide (edit: and automutilation). However, the effect of a support group was also clearly there which was also a reason why they were reluctant to close it down.
What I'd like to know is how the effect would be compared to a forum or real-life support group. Because comparing social media with 'no help' or 'loneliness' obviously isn't fair.
Re: Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
#10Anxiety is the second leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide. Uh, what? That's a patently ridiculous assertion to lead with (and not support).
If you take anxiety to include everything from stress to a bunch of disorders, I'd believe it. Our bodies were not made to handle the permanent stress we see in modern life. The first place I imagine goes to cardiovascular issues?
It either is the "second leading cause of disability and mortality" or it isn't, there's nothing to believe. I very much agree with GP that the claim is completely unsupported.
I found the study that the article bases this on[1]. It doesn't make this claim and instead associates a higher mortality rate to sufferers of all mental disorders, 67% of which are deaths by natural causes. That these natural causes are directly associated with the mental disorder isn't even something the study says. Anxiety is just one of the many disorders analyzed.
This is similar to attributing a lower life expectancy to all people with endocrine diseases (e.g. diabetes) and later saying hyperthyroidism (another endocrine disease) is the sole cause of death in that group.
- [1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...